Post #2769031
2026-03-18 14:52 UTC
@iainvdw@mastodon.social @happyborg@fosstodon.org Currently we think before writing code, because writing it and changing it takes effort (and even for LLM-generated slop code it takes time, and burns money and rainforests, so it's better to get the spec right first)
But the thing I've been wondering about is that if generation speed improves significantly, it will change the problem from "should we write it like this?" to "I've written it. Is this what you wanted? How about this? Or that? Here's 10 more with benchmarks"
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@iainvdw@mastodon.social 2026-03-18 15:06
@kornel@mastodon.social @happyborg@fosstodon.org Just curious about your opinion on that, is that a better problem to have?
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@happyborg@fosstodon.org 2026-03-18 15:23
@kornel@mastodon.social I don't think that's likely to work because you are asking someone to choose, and to choose they have to think and understand. Do you think the end user can do that effectively, efficiently? I don't. I think this is going to happen, and recognise that it fits the pattern of pushing costs outside businesses that rent tools, onto the users themselves. If you want this to be efficient you need specialists: software engineers. I don't think LLMs coding improves people's lives @iainvdw@mastodon.social